Arthur Lazere

Mr. Lazere founded culturevulture.net in 1998 and worked tirelessly to promote its potential as a means for communicating a distinctly personal yet wide-ranging selection of arts reviews. Under his leadership, the site grew in esteem as well as in “circulation", and is well-regarded nationally and internationally as a source for up-to-date, well-written criticism. Arthur passed away on September 30, 2006.

FilmAugust 12, 2004
Two couples, close friends in a college town. Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and his wife Terry (Laura Dern) live with their two kids in somewhat funky disarray, financially scraping by, the romance apparently drained from their marriage by familiarity ...

FilmAugust 5, 2004
Stretch halter mini dress with open weave sides On the basis of The Insider alone, films by Michael Mann command attention. That film was gripping and pointed and it had some genuine character development ...

FilmAugust 5, 2004
If the French had an equivalent of the Japanese "Living National Treasures," film director Patrice Leconte would surely rank high on the list. Over a period of three decades, Leconte has helmed over two dozen films that span a ...

FilmJuly 29, 2004
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FilmJuly 28, 2004
"Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee..." There's probably no prayer as widely recognized in the Western world as the Hail Mary. It's the key prayer in the Rosary; some believe that each time they say ...

FilmJuly 23, 2004
Almost a decade separates Michael Cunningham's first novel, A Home at the End of the World from his bestselling The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. The popular film of The Hours netted an Oscar for Nicole ...

FilmJuly 19, 2004
Films which are based on topical political subject matter run a considerable risk of becoming dated. Politics in itself is never out-of-date--it's too much a part of the human condition in all times and places. Look at films like ...

FilmJuly 17, 2004
Click the poster to buy at MovieGoods.com the John Irving novel on which the film is based For a change, The Door in the Floor is an American movie that is strongly character-based and screenwriter/director Tod ...

TelevisionJuly 15, 2004
The Grid, a six hour miniseries, is as timely as today's newspapers. The subject matter of this fictional drama is terrorism and the counter-terrorism efforts of agencies of the United States and British governments--the FBI, the CIA, the NSC, ...

FilmJuly 13, 2004
Post-apocalyptic movies, more often than not, have been schlocky sci fi--the likes of the Mad Max flicks, The Postman and Waterworld. Occasionally, the concept has inspired more thoughtful films like the wry Delicatessen, Werckmeister Harmonies (which doesn't explicitly refer ...